And fast doth Indian town to town succeed,

Some large, some small, in populous array;

And here and there was many an ample mead,

Where green the maize had grown in summer’s ray,

And forth there poured, where’er they passed along,

Of naked children many a gazing throng.

LXIII.

Their small sunk eyes, like sparks from burning coal,

On the white stranger stared; but when they spied

The Wampanoag, they began to roll